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Marina Harss

Marina Harss is a freelance dance writer and translator based in New York. Her dance writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the Nation, Playbill, the Faster Times, DanceView, The Forward, Pointe, and Ballet Review. Her translations, which include Irène Némirovsky's The Mirador, Dino Buzzati's Poem Strip and Pasolini's Stories from the City of God have been published by FSG, Other Press, and the New York Review Books.

October 2016

  • Bill T. Jones

    Bill T Jones: legendary choreographer leaps into the unknown

    Since the 1970s, Jones has explored narratives from Abraham Lincoln to Aids in dance. Now he’s turned to the work of WG Sebald – and his own nephew

February 2016

  • Justin Peck New York City Ballet Most Incredible Thing Hans Christian Andersen

    Justin Peck and the National's Bryce Dessner create a Most Incredible ballet

    The 28-year-old dancer and choreographer’s latest work, inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, marks an exciting return to narrative dance

June 2015

  • Misty Copeland in Romeo and Juliet.

    Misty Copeland's success shows ballet leaping in the right direction

    For years, the ballet world has been overwhelmingly white, but Copeland’s well-deserved promotion will inspire legions of young people who feel excluded
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